Kuchar and Simpson have Sony Open lead

The Sony Open has completed 36 holes at the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu and playing partners over the first two rounds, Matt Kuchar and Webb Simson, share the lead.

The pair are at 12 under and two ahead of Tim Clark and troy Merritt.

Kuchar has produced several good finishes in this tournament of late and has played well enough in his most recent starts while Simpson, now using the short putter, has only one top ten in five starts in the event but in what is his first event since early December has made an excellent start to his post belly putter career.

Clark has a great record in this event having been runner-up on two occasions and clearly Waialae CC fits his eye.

Marc Leishman continues his recent good form in this event to lead the Australians in a share of 8th position and just four shots from the lead while Jason Day and Steve Bowditch are tied in 20th place six from the lead with Matt Jones, Stuart Appley and John Senden the other Australians to make the cut.

Matt Kuchar has extended his lead at the Sony Open in Honolulu adding a third round of 66 to lead Andrew Putnam by two and the rest of the field by at least four as the event heads into tomorrow’s final round.

The traditional opening full field event of the year on the PGA Tour, the Sony Open, will again be the first such event of the year 2014 and several of the players who fought out the closing stages of this past week's Hyundai Championship are well placed to produced another good week.

Scott Brown and Matt Kuchar share the lead at the halfway stage of the RBC Canadian Open at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club in Ontario, the pair one ahead of Brandt Snedeker and Canadian Nick Taylor.

Justin Thomas is getting used to leading tournaments by a margin and today he continued that trend by taking a five shot lead through 36 holes of the Sony Open at the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu just five days after he led by a similar margin during the final round of the SBS Tournament of Champions and this event by three yesterday.